Social Question

If you were to choose an Olympic event that best suited your abilities, which would it be?

Which have you previous experience in & which have you an aptitude for however small? Or would it simply be a case of choosing something you like to watch but have no real ability at? If for examle you select athletics. Please state which, 100 metres, long jump, hurdles etc.

Some twenty years ago i thought i was a really fast sprinter.
In the factory corridor i beat all my colleagues and one time i asked for someone to time me.
It was an eighty meters long corridor and i was timed at thirteen point something, so not that fast.
Until then i was pretty convinced that i would fit in in a final of the 100 meter.
Until then…

The eight hundred meters also always looks doable to me, but i know now that i probably couldn’t do even half of it.

Loudest voice. I was a towncrier in a previous life. In a busy city probably.

From the actual Olympic events the only one I was really any good at was medium and long distances (3000m steeplechase, 800m, marathon). somewhere around 10km or so was good for me. The only official event I ever took place in was the college games when I was a freshman (before I started smoking). But I had been sick with the flu that week and barely made it to the finish line.

My first cousin represented Australia in the LA Olympics. Or was it Seoul?

@rebbel Last time I was timed at 100 metres I was at school, maybe 15. Clock stopped at around 12 seconds.I remember our P.E teacher tried in vain to get me to take running a step further.I hated it though preferred my football.So that was that really.

@rebbel Truth be told, like every other nation who has designs on winning the thing, we’re going to need lady luck to be smiling on us that’s for sure.Pity the Germans always seem to get the lions share though.